My deckwork is proceeding nicely and my attention is now turning to the rowing boats.
I was wondering how the boats were heaved down from their moorings onto the deck below and subsequently down to the water. My Endeavour kit from Occre has only one boat, but there were more, I am sure and I am going to add one more. The boat is placed on the spare top masts, spanned between two supports and then lashed with rope to the 6 eyes on the deck below it. See photo below (boat still in build - image to show where the boat(s) is (are) placed. My question is, did the ships of that time (mid 18th C) have hoisting equipment as my kit doesn't consider such equipment, or were the boats manhandled into position? I can imagine it wasn't easy to lower the boat to the water and back out of the water onto the ship without hoisting equipment!
I have read through my books on the subject of model ship building and ploughed through the internet, but wasn't able to find relevant information. Can somebody help me further?
Thank you.
I was wondering how the boats were heaved down from their moorings onto the deck below and subsequently down to the water. My Endeavour kit from Occre has only one boat, but there were more, I am sure and I am going to add one more. The boat is placed on the spare top masts, spanned between two supports and then lashed with rope to the 6 eyes on the deck below it. See photo below (boat still in build - image to show where the boat(s) is (are) placed. My question is, did the ships of that time (mid 18th C) have hoisting equipment as my kit doesn't consider such equipment, or were the boats manhandled into position? I can imagine it wasn't easy to lower the boat to the water and back out of the water onto the ship without hoisting equipment!
I have read through my books on the subject of model ship building and ploughed through the internet, but wasn't able to find relevant information. Can somebody help me further?
Thank you.